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 Laffhoiiat, Algcriii. 

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Oued Duniiel, Algeria. 

 Bou Saada, Algeria. 

 N'Cioussa, Algeria. 



Rusa, Tunis. 

 Tripoli. 



Beersbeba. 



31. Lataste [P.]. 1 



I (Types of ^1. 

 M. Lataste [P.]. r bcilrifif/ai, 

 M. Lataste |P.|. I \'dv.(h\serti.) 

 M. Lataste [P.]. J 

 Canon Tristram [C.]. 



(Type of Zixjfuca dcserti.) 

 ]\Ir. Fraser [C.]. 

 J. Ritchie, Esq. [P.]. 

 (Types of Scapteira maculata.) 

 Canon Tristram [C.]. 



9. Acanthodactylus vulgaris. 



Acanthodactylus velox, Gray, Cat. p. 30. 



bellii, (irmj, I. c. 



liueomaculatiis, Gray, I. c. p. •\7. 



Lacerta velox (non Pall.), M.-Edio. Ann. Sc. Nat. xvi. 1829, pp. 78, 



85, pi. "S'i. fig. (5, and pi. vii. fig. 4; Dugls, Ann. Sc. Nat. xvi. 



p. 383, pi. XV. fig. G. 

 Acanthodactylus vulgaris, Diim. ^- Bihr. v. p. 268 ; Gvichen. Explur. 



Sc. Alg., Bcpt. ^.\^; Strauch, Erp. Aly. p. 35 ; Schreib. Hcrp. 



Eur. p. 390; Bouleng. Bull. Soc. Zool. France, 1878, p. 195; 



Bc'lriaya, Arch. f. Nat. 1879, p. 335 ; Boulcny. Proc. Zool. Soc. 



1881, p. 747, pi. Ixiv. fig. 4; Lataste, Ann. JIus. Genov. (2) ii, 



1885, p. 477. 

 lineoniaculatus, Dinn. ^- Bibr. p. 270; Strauch., I. c. p. 37; 



Boetty. Abh. Senck. Ges. ix. 1873, p. 129 ; Schreib. I. c. p. 385 ; 



Bouleng. II. cc. pp. 191, 747; Boettg. Abh. Senck. Ges. xiii. 1883, 



p. 114. 

 Lacerta pardalis, Schley, m Wag7i. lieis. Alyier, iii. p. 115. 

 Acanthodactylus boschianus, Bonap. Faun. Ital. 



Snout obtuse. Two supraoculars, the first} and fourth being 

 broken up into small scales or granules ; subocnlar usually bordering 

 the lip ; temporal scales smooth ; front edge of the ear not or but 

 feebly denticulated. Dorsal scales smooth, or more or less distinctly 

 keeled, small, rliomboidal, feebly imbricate on the back. Ventral 

 plates much broader than long (the largest nearly or quite twice 

 as broad as long), in straight longitudinal and transverse series ; 

 8 or 10 plates across the middle of the body. A median 

 series of broad prajanals, posterior largest. The hind limb reaches 

 usually the collar or the tympanum, sometimes not beyond the axil. 

 Digital denticulations very feebly developed, about equally on both 

 sides. Upper caudal scales strongly keeled ; basal subcaudals smooth 

 or feebly keeled. Young longitudinally streaked black and white 

 on the body, with round white spots on the limbs. Adult greyish 

 or brownish, with more or less distinct traces of light and dark 

 longitudinal lines and longitudinal series of black and pale spots ; 

 sometimes with large blue ocelli on the sides. 



